Sun TV Network

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13°02′31″N 80°14′54″E / 13.04199°N 80.24831°E / 13.04199; 80.24831

For the television channel in India, see Sun TV (India).
For the television channel in Japan, see SUN-TV.
For the television channel in Canada branded as SUN TV, see CKXT-TV.
For the television channel in Taiwan, see Taiwan Television and Sunsineskwela Mandarin.
Sun TV Network
Company typePrivate
IndustryDTH Pay TV
Founded1992
HeadquartersChennai, Tamil Nadu,  India
ProductsDirect broadcast satellite
Websitewww.sunnetwork.in

Sun TV Network is a Rs 16000-crore (4 Billion $) Indian cable television network based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1992, it offers a plethora of television channels in 4 languages covering the whole of southern India. It was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged in 1992. Its serials and soaps have generated the maximum TRP for viewership all over India, making it the most popular network of channels in India. Till 2007 coupled with the DMK-backed Karunanidhi family, it was the largest political-media family in India till the split in November 2005.

All its channels occupy the top spots in their respective languages. Sun TV, in Tamil is the Network's flagship and most popular channel. Being the premier channel, Sun TV is often used to refer to the Sun TV Network in general.

Kalanithi Maran is the Chairman and Managing Director of media giant Sun Network and has been given various awards including the CNBC "Business Excellence Award" in 2005.

Sun Network also offers FM Radio Stations ( 93.5 FM ) and has recently forayed into the print business. In addition, it has also recently launched a DTH satellite television service entitled Sun Direct.

Channels

Sun Network offers 20 television channels in four languages, generally targetting southern Indian viewers. Various networks are also available abroad for international viewers. The channel offerings are as follows:

TAMIL

Although its main presence is in Tamil, it has channels in other languages also.

KANNADA

TELUGU

MALAYALAM

  • Surya TV - Malayalam Entertainment Channel
  • Kiran TV - Malayalam Music Channel
  • Kochu TV - Malayalam Kids Channel(coming soon)

BENGALI

It had also offered 2 (now defunct) channels Sun Movies and Sun Music. The latter was however relaunched years later in the present avatar with better success. Sun Movies was later relaunched as KTV.

FM Radio Stations

Visit http://www.sfm935.in/ to hear Chennai Suryan FM online

Tamil FM Stations

Malayalam FM Stations

Telugu FM Station

Kannada FM Station

Hindi / Other Language FM Station

SUN DIRECT - DTH Service

Satellite Insat 4B

The "SUN Direct", DTH service from the South Indian Media Giant, SUN Network, started on 7th December 2007. The Initial rollout was only in its home land "Tamil Nadu", where they face all hurdles. After a big struggle, they were able to launch the product in all over south .

DD Direct Plus[1]

SUN DIRECT[2]

Tamil NewsPapers

Weekly Tamil Magazine

History and Ownership

Its ownership lies in the hands of Kalanidhi Maran who is related to Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). In fact the logo of Sun TV was inspired by the "Rising Sun" which is the party symbol of DMK. The headquarters too is in the premises of Anna Arivalayam the HQ of DMK in Chennai.

It was the first fully privately owned Tamil channel in India when it emerged in 1992.

On November 7, 2005, DMK president M Karunanidhi announced that his wife Dayalu Ammal has relinquished her 20% shares in Sun Network and its Tamil publications [5]. This arrangement was on the cards for many months. The move by Karunanidhi’s family to divest from the Rs 600-crore Sun TV Group comes in the wake of speculation that the 82-year-old DMK patriarch is quite piqued with the channel’s managers for virtually blacking out his son, MK Stalin, the DMK’s deputy general secretary, who is being groomed to take over the DMK reins.

See also

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